If a child from an Amazonian hunter-gatherer tribe comes to Boston, is raised in Boston, that child will be indistinguishable in language capacities from my children growing up here, and vice versa.

Since James Madison day (and long before), there have been constant struggles over "democratic governance".

The task for a modern industrial society is to achieve what is now technically realizable, namely, a society which is really based on free voluntary participation of people who produce and create, live their lives freely within institutions they control, and with limited hierarchical structures, possibly none at all

It's not in doubt that tobacco is far more lethal than hard drugs.

The U.S. is, to a very unusual extent, a business-run society.

Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.

During the 1960s, large groups of people who are normally passive and apathetic began to try to enter the political arena to press their demands.... The naive might call that democracy, but that's because they don't understand. The sophisticated understand that that's the crisis of democracy.